‘This was a setup’: Lawyer gets fired from her job after a hiring manager contacts her current boss and tells them she is looking for another job

The hiring process is always a long and exhausting process for the job candidates. The many steps they have to pass in order to actually get a job is a full-time job in itself, and more often than not people are met with disappointment rather than an actual offer.

One step in the hiring process that was never clear to me is when hiring managers ask the candidates for references and call their former employers. I highly doubt that the information they get is beneficial, and it just creates more stress for the job candidate, who has to contact people they haven't talked to in years and ask them for praise. Not to mention the fact that the candidate's current employer usually doesn't know about them looking for another job, so they cannot be contacted, and if they are, that can cause a lot of issues.

This is exactly what happened to the lawyer in this Reddit story while she was looking for another job, so scroll down to read her full story. After you are done, click here for a story of a woman who sued her own brother for a cat she bought him.

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